At age 75, Vadevino Alano keeps up a brisk pace as he strides through the forest on the way to the Armadillo’s Den — a ...

The ancient earthworks—giant geometric or anthropomorphic drawings in the land created thousands of years ago using stones and mounds of dirt—are primarily visible from the air and were ...

Water engineers in ancient South America turned seasonally flooded Amazonian savannas into hotbeds of year-round maize farming. Previous excavations dated Casarabe society, which covered an area ...

Are you planning a trip to South America? Do you need help figuring out where to go ... And the beauty of the natural climate and ancient civilization feels otherworldly. To help you along your ...

Torn away from the rest of their family, they were victims of an age-old regional warfare which underpinned an equally ancient but ... the US (and in parts of South America), the importation ...

Archaeologists discovered clusters of red ocher drawings scattered on rocks and cliffs across Canaima National Park—and have some theories on who made the mysterious art.

The building at Chupacigarro reveals three superimposed platforms and stone walls marked by large 'huancas' at the corners ...

Her long-unpublished novel was the culmination of a years-long fascination. What does it reveal about her fraught views on ...

History and archaeology have often portrayed megalithic architecture as a cultural phenomenon specific to ancient European peoples, focusing on the study of mortuary and ritualistic constructions ...

Cocoa was first cultivated in ancient South America. During the Age of Exploration, the Spanish Conquistadors introduced it to Europe. In the 1850s, steam-powered machines allowed for the mass ...

Chinese tech startup DeepSeek’s new artificial intelligence chatbot has sparked discussions about the competition between ...